George Allen Miller One Geek's take on all things SciFi

I may be returning often to the topic of TAPS, those famous rotor routers guys that track down ghosts and ghouls on the SEEFEE (syfy) channel. Why? Well, I find the topic fascinating. I think we all do. Even atheists want to have proof that there is no afterlife, just so they can stick to all the believers in the world. Maybe the biggest reason any wants to know is to scream “I TOLD YOU SO” from the tops of the tallest buildings.

I just want to know, will I ever see departed loved ones? Will I ever meet the likes of Einstein or Lincoln? Will I myself survive death and haunt my own house when some jerk moves in and paints it all some dreary gray?

One possible answer is coming from TAPS. They have accumulated some evidence that begs further scrutiny. One such piece of evidence, however, seems to make me think these guys are not legit. It is a raging question by the way, are the boys (and girls) of TAPS, The Atlantic Paranormal Society, full of bubcus or actually finding ghosts.

Once, they, TAPS, visited an old abandoned prison. This was the episode where one of these brave souls, and a cameraman if I remember correctly, ran down a hallway screaming that a hand moved in front of their face. At first look, to me, that is solid proof that 1. they aren’t faking and 2. that guy is a bit of a pansy. If they were faking something, why stage some elaborate fake run down the hall and scream scene? That’s a bit childish.

But then, they did provide some evidence that made me go hmmm. On one of the upper walk ways of this prison, they captured a figure moving closer to the camera and then receding from it into the darkness. I thought, when I first saw this, ‘holy shit’. It was a really interesting piece of film footage, honestly. They used to have links to it on their website, but now I don’t see them. Interestingly enough about this piece of footage, Grant said on the show, “it looks like some one’s pants leg” and wasn’t convinced it was anything.

Well, I looked at the footage, and looked, and looked. I realized something. The dust was was moving awfully fast. In fact, as I looked, it seemed as if the footage was being sped up. As if it was on fast foward. The more I looked the more I thought, yep, this is a fake.

Whether or not it was, we’ll never know. TAPS will always say it was genuine of course. To fake something like that though, it would take a lot of work. Bear Grills couldn’t get away with staging a lousy horse roping fiasco after all. For the plumbers to produce the footage they did from the prison and have had faked it would be an amazing feat. Still, it looked sped up to me and that something hanging was rocking back and forth at an odd rate of speed.

Final verdict? UNKNOWN. If it’s a real piece of evidence, it’s startling. If it’s a faked piece of evidence, it’s well done. All we can do is watch more episodes, which we will, and look for this instances where it’s blatantly faked, or absolutely real, either way, someone is going to scream “I TOLD YOU SO!”.